skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. Amazing, isn't it?

I will say: I don't necessarily like to say "lucky," or even "privileged". Luck incites tricky emotion because there's an implication with luck that you didn't deserve it. A gambler who won at the slot machine should have lost his money -- luck carries that "should have" connotation with it. Likewise, privilege carries a zero-sum connotation, because we always mean someone is privileged in relation to another, which introduces almost an adversarial tone to it.

For me, a better term is fortunate. I am fortunate that I have a job in a nice office, solving interesting puzzles all day, getting paid (relatively) a lot of money doing it. Fortune has come upon me. I work hard, although not really harder than any other reasonable person. I was born in the right zip code, to the right family, had access to an amazing education, had the stability in my life to pursue it. Fortune.

I will never look down on anyone who is fortunate. I wish most people could have fortune in their lives. If the price we pay is a few complaints that the soda machine is down today, so be it!
Getting kinda hard to get anything relevant out of this website. I'm fairly new here, but from what I've read you'll at least get something constructive out of it. Why spend time breaking something instead of helping to improve it. Some people need to learn better
Depending on the flavour of the linguist, they could say "as long as the correct meaning is conveyed, go wild" :)
The argument against hybrids that's always resonated with me is that you get the maintenance costs of a gasoline engine with the upfront costs of a battery. I've owned a Leaf and found it relatively trouble-free but never a hybrid. Am I just buying into FUD there?
Company Offers $206M in Secured Notes Backed by IPv4 Addresses
It’s like job hunting in a way too, they can reject you, but you’re also interviewing them for their resources and fit too. Why shouldn’t I just ignore them if they ignore me? If we do happen to grow to a point where they’ll come crawling back begging to be part of thE nExT rOUnd, isn’t that a signal that I shouldn’t even bother? They did tip their hand first...

I don’t know why I would give them the time of day, same as I would anywhere that rejected me for a job but later had a change of heart.
And even if there isn't, when SpaceX is booked out for years and you need a launch slot in 6 months, that's when having competition is valuable.

Always look for other ways to compete besides price. (not intended to be as preachy as it sounds :-)
Nah, it's really akin to the debate historians have over Great People or Inexorable events. Would calculus have been discovered had Liebniz and Newton died in a duel? Would the Panama Canal still have been built had Teddy Roosevelt not been its primary proponent? The Apollo project shows that Big Events can still happen even when it's most eloquent proponent gets a bullet to the head.
>Now, in New York City, customers like myself who want to continue tipping must do so after their order is placed.

>On the DoorDash app, the “add tip” option is near the top when viewing a past order.

> “We know tips are still an important way for consumers to show Dashers their appreciation, so consumers will still be able to tip after checkout and for up to 30 days after they order,”

Isn't this how it's supposed to work? Why would I tip before my order is delivered?
It might be cheaper for all and easier for the ISPs to instead pay money in lieu of servicing customers into a city-/county-owned municipal co-op for $15/month.
I love XSL. There are some problems that it is absolutely stellar at solving. NCBI recently changed their JATS schema. No need to change any code, just modify the stylesheet and everything hums along as if nothing changed.
I'm saying I don't think this comment you've flagged yourself "ought to have been moderated." Louis Rothman is a public figure. There doesn't seem to be any rule against attacking public figures

... or is there? If so, when and how does it kick in?

Also, just call them "rules." Calling them "guidelines" implies they can be broken occasionally if there's a good reason. It's misleading.
A good comic on the difference between what most people think when they hear wheelchair vs what wheelchair users need to be independent: https://www.tumblr.com/calvin-arium/184341867538/its-here-th...
Do you know what they call people who hang around with musicians?

Drummers.
Reminds me of the military industrial complex.
You want to see people break multiple boards without spacers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoZhFSakOf0
Well, that's the interesting thing. You likely can import and use these wheelchairs, but they can't be sold as medical devices and, subsequently, won't be covered by your insurance.

The dumb thing is these super cheap wheelchairs would likely cost the end users more money than the expensive ones as they will buy them out of pocket vs having their insurance/medicare cover most/all of the cost.

The reason these companies don't sell these wheelchairs in the US is likely because the marketing would run afowl of regulations about selling medical devices. You probably could sell these as bicycles and hobby chairs though.
Then you can't run another VPN right? Then raw through Verizon with their tracking headers and stuff for anything non-https unless you go through the series of opt outs that get periodically invalidated with a new opt out needed.
There's cruft, but there's also decades long backwards compatibility and feature completeness.

Sitting down and doing actual work instead of fighting immature runtimes and toolchain isn't a bad idea, but unfortunately is something pervasive in this industry. In addition, nothing I've tried thus far comes even close to the experience of the CL debugger.
Were they actually sodium batteries? Maybe they were fraudulently labeled Li-ion.

Also it's my understanding that neither sodium batteries nor li-ion batteries have metallic sodium/lithium in them (besides small amounts which build up in heavily used li-ion cells or something).
A lot of maintenance items simply don't exist in a modern full hybrid. Typically there is no accessory belt, no alternator, no starter. Filters, coils, spark plugs and engine oil will last longer since the engine doesn't run nearly as hot (usually it's "atkinson" cycle) and isn't used constantly.
I wish I could actually fight something and win/loose!

(Pretty cool for a laugh)
Occam's Razor got him, not the 'biker gang'.

He was known to enjoy his drink and to excess. It is an all too common pattern of human behaviour, and, aged 52, the chances are that he was self medicating for physical as well as mental pain.

Even if there was a mythical brawl with these fictional bikers that are always as tough as in the movies (not), then why was he in the bar in the first place? Oh yeah, they sell alcohol in bars and he had a taste for the stuff.

I am sure that all around told him to put the bottle down but the course of self destruction is a powerful one.

There was probably some childhood trauma that gave him the drive to conquer the world and the loss to Microsoft was trauma too. Nobody could have understood him as well as that bottle did. Sad. He is a great hero of mine and I liked his frequent appearances on Computer Chronicles because of how optimistically he talked of the future.
Thanks! :)

I should've been more clear. The questions I posed above are rhetorical. I've spent well over half a decade obsessing over them. See my mention of System Transparency, Sigsum and Tillitis elsewhere in this thread.
Low four, so say like $2,000 for a five minute video? Why not list $1,999 for a five minute video on your website? For an open source side project, that's maybe out of reach, for a company, that's peanuts (so they'll readily pay it). Or; how much haggling do you do? It's a very neat product, but how much time do you spend on sales emails to get to a price?
That's a very good summary. I would also add colonialism to the conversation. The idea that "lesser" nations' culture and language could be erased, their populations turned into slaves, and natural resources exploited for the benefit of the colonial powers was also an important contributor to what happened in that region in the 20th century.
Programmers don't love errors. In fact, we see time and time again that even just seeing the word "error" causes programmers to forget how to program. It's their kryptonite.

But they don't see value in warnings. Either you have a problem that needs to be fixed or you don't.
Tell HN: Looking for dev work? My best advice on getting a dev job
Getting a development job is hard at the moment. More people than jobs.

I am a developer who happened to do recruiting of developers for 20 years.

Along the way, many people, frustrated and upset at not being able to get a job, would ask me "How do I get a job, what do I do, I can't even get interviews?".

My advice was always the same, and I never once had anyone take that advice (that I know of). Why? Because it takes effort.

The advice is straightforward...... if you want to get a job with a given programming language or technology, then become a genuine contributor to the biggest, most well known, most recognizable open source project in that field.

By "genuine contributor" I mean you must have fixed minimum 10 bugs or implement minimum 10 features and had them accepted and merged in. Only then can you list yourself as a contributor to that project.

Want to work at a company doing Django programming? Become a genuine contributor to the Django project.

Want to work at a company doing Python machine learning? Become a genuine contributor to the TensorFlow project.

Want to work at a company doing JavaScript web development with VueJS? Become a genuine contributor to the VueJS project.

Love Ruby On Rails and want to work on ROR projects? Become a genuine contributor to the ROR project.

Usually this is not the advice people want to hear - they want to know how to get a job without doing real work.

It MUST be an instantly recognisable open source project - it MUST be known by the people doing the interviews at the employer you are applying to - less well known projects definitely have impact and improve your resume and your credibility, but if you want the knockout punch, then be a contributor to something huge - it impresses people.

If a company is using a technology such as VueJS for example, and you are a genuine contributor to that project, then this gives you outsized credibility..... employers using VueJS cannot and will not ignore you. You will at least get an interview and your chances of getting the job will rise significantly, all else being equal.

Presumably you read this far because you really genuinely want to get a job. You now have my best advice. You can ignore it and keep looking for work, or do the work and get the interviews.

Do something impressive - make yourself so impressive that employers simply cannot ignore you - I have described here the one way to do that.

Good luck I hope you get the job you want. Its good for you and good for the open source projects too, who often value the help.
> The first step is to stop thinking of "the public" as a monolithic entity whose interests are pursued by the government, and instead recognize that control over things that have a major impact on the lives, welfare, freedom, and prosperity need to be things they can effectively control or opt-out of as individuals.

If AI takes over the world, or others pump lots of GHG into the air and cause climate change, or someone sets off explosives and burns down my neighborhood, or my frozen chicken contains poisonous bacteria, or my bathroom sanitizer doesn't really sanitize - how do I opt out?

Plenty of regulations coexists with FOSS, obviously.

The arguments against all regulation are transparently weak, and the apparent dogmatism discredits everything else. Why be so dogmatically anti-regulation? Dogmatism isn't about finding truth but about serving someone's political interests. If I understand correctly what's happening, whose interests are you serving and why?
Wine 9.8 (Dev) – Run Windows Applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS
Epic Games also announced integrated of Unreal Engine with Marvelous Designer for UEFN and other games built in UE, this may likely drive more usage as well:

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/metahuman-comes-to-u...

https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/marvelous-designer-free-on...
That arrogant Lunduke guy has a strange definition of a bully.
Haha, indeed :)
The rule-of-thumb over a few decades is that enterprise initial quote pricing is usually 200% of the lowest negotiated price. That final price should be between 9% (PC commodity margins) to 50%+ profit over costs of sales.

Also, I really would like to know what the real (unit) costs of goods of H100's would be, but that's proprietary info no one outside of Nvidia execs and accountants would ever see.
3D printing is very popular right now. And for good reason. However, it often masks the fact that there are many ways to manufacture most products, and often, 3D printing is the most expensive one.

Meaning that instead of thinking "how do I 3D print this?" you should be thinking "how do I manufacture this?"

Something as simple as making a drawing, specifying the material and quantity needed and then going on reddit/r/manufacturing and asking "how would I build 50 of these" can provide very useful answers, even if you have to do a bit of research later to understand what you've been told.
Oh you give it rest please.

You need to learn how much software & operational upkeep costs factor into those “44% gross profit margins”
Private equity is great for exposing the flaws in our economic system. The consequences are of course awful and it would be better that they didn't happen. But since they are happening, hopefully more people will start to realize it. When exposed to this kind of thing you can generally have one of two reactions:

The first is that you say that this kind of thing is good. It's all part of capitalism. The market will work it out. People will say this kind of thing with a straight face.

The second is to say that it is bad. But why is it bad?

The first stage is you believe that there are bad apples. Private equity is simply a few bad actors who may or may not need to be dealth with by way of legislation, regulation and/or prosecution. Lots of people believe this because they still fundamentally believe in our current economic system.

The second stage is you realize that private equity isn't an outlier and isn't a few bad apples. It is exactly what our system is designed to produce: to financialize and rent-seek in every aspect of our lives as a means of extracting wealth from the poor to the already vastly wealthy.

Private equity is taking over every aspect of your life by buying up homes, mobile home parks, vets, medical practices, hospitals, etc. There probably isn't a single aspect of our lives that hasn't been tainted by private equity.

And the playbook is exactly the same:

1. Jack up the prices, usually by cornering a market by either buying up all the competition or through legislatively creating enclosures;

2. Cut costs. Use noncompete agreements and and the like to suppress wages; and

3. Load up the entity with exploding debt and sell it to the market before the debt explodes.

This is capitalism working as intended. No more, no less.

On wheelchairs in particular, it's truly disgusting what we as a society put wheelchair users through. One of the most egeregious examples is how airlines will routinely destroy wheelchairs.

We are steadily marching towrads a future where almost all of us will be a permanent underclass devoid of any kind of security. Every aspect of our lives will be at the mercy of our overlords. Capitalism inevitably leads to neofeudalism.
I assume selection bias is in play: for every post on the internet there are many more who did break their hand and ended up in ER, they were just too ashamed to talk about it.
For me, (one of) the moments was when there figured out how to do remote attestation of the server to check that what it was running was what you expected, so you could check its privacy yourself.

Rather a neat subversion of the common corporate use of remote attestation, to preserve user privacy and security rather than curtail it.
Yes, I created the sounds with my mouth hahah
"AjarHinge"?
I set up PolyGit on my phone. So I can take new notes by pulling, editing, and the pushing. It's a pain, not gonna lie. But I don't take notes away from any of my computers that often. Mostly I'm in a work meeting, reading an email, something like that, so it doesn't come up too often.

All it would take to be awesome would be to find a mobile git app that required fewer button presses, so I'm hopeful.
I was curious what parts they were using in their design but couldn't find any actual open source design content. The website seems to be 100% fundraising copy. The idea seems good, I hope this doesn't turn out to be another piece of accessible tech vaporware.
Because it’s not a reward for good service, it’s a reverse bid for service. The estimated earnings are shown to drivers so if there is no tip, that will be lower and less likely to take the job. It’s just weird to call it a tip.
> By the way - the author ultimately did figure out how to use the drill, can't help but wonder if anyone in the chat had to use a drill for some reason, they would simply watch the same video and easily figure it out too

I expect most people that buy something like this would read the single-page manual that tells you what each control does. But they can't see the difference, because it's not visible.
It seems like quite a rush of it today. Did someone put up the anarcho-libertarian bat signal?
Prius are pretty well known for being cheap to drive for a long while no?

Sure, they are always going to be more complex than a full electric but good gasoline cars are don't have any huge maintenance costs for a good long while.
sadly, the most important project they care is leetcode.
>For a given maximum number range, it's trivial to make Miller-Rabin actually deterministic. You just choose bases that have been proven to together exclude all pseudoprimes in the given range.

What are the bases for the range of 1024-bit numbers? I couldn't find an answer online.
The US has no control over OPEC. It absolutely has control over monopolies and cartels within its borders. That’s part of the story; something can be done about this behavior in this jurisdiction and situation.
I’ll definitely add more to this
Furthermore, this photo-forward interface design pattern presents candidates' physical attractiveness as the most salient feature. While this is desirable in a dating app, this is probably not very relevant for assessing people for their potential as musical collaborators.

From the top of my head, I'm going to guess people want (1) personable and agreeable bandmates with (2) compatible music styles, (3) musical talent and skill, and (4) can play instruments or roles that a band is missing.

So the interface should support users in presenting and finding these traits. If I were to design it, I'd have:

- Auto-playing music sample gallery. This is the most important thing to present. The current design asks the user to dig into Youtube and Soundcloud links — which is very high-friction and would have the user jumping between this app and other apps every few seconds.

- One-minute self-introduction video. This helps the user grok the general 'vibe' of someone.

- Allow users to connect their Spotify or other music accounts. Then show users their shared music interests. This can provide another clue about having compatible musical personalities.
This is binary thinking and loses important nuance.
> Renewables are cheaper and can make up a large part of the grid when properly integrated. No need for new expensive and unpopular nuclear

They’re also variable, including—as we’re now learning—over long-ish timescales [1]. Developing all options is smart. Other countries seem to be able to deploy APT1000s just fine; SMRs should also receive more funding.

[1] https://e360.yale.edu/digest/us-wind-power-drop-2023
I mean, we absolutely did "Free PC Checkups" and obviously we knew how to tinker with startup and do virus and adware removal. These aren't some magical skills that only the rarest of employees knew, it was absolutely basic nerd knowledge that everyone who even applied knew front and back.

Back then of course adware/malware scanners were huge. We certainly did hook computers up and start a bevy of automated scanners and tools and fix performance issues. And every single time it cost a lot more labor and a lot more money to the customer. But it's up to them and a lot of people didn't want a reformat or had a more expensive computer that wasn't as economical to replace.

Believe me when I tell you that productivity wise, a guy reformatting 5 computers at once in an hour flat is lapping anyone who is spending multiple hours per computer running those scanners and tinkering setting by setting.
Oh, that's my bad. I copied this from my Nix config and that's how you escape.

https://git.sr.ht/~pkulak/nix/tree/main/item/home/default.ni...

https://git.sr.ht/~pkulak/nix/tree/main/item/home/default.ni...
It's funny. I suppose Rank Order is not that useful when the top two ranks are very similar. The linked data is Nuclear 0.03 deaths / Solar 0.02 deaths.

But we shouldn't use the rank order claim then haha. In fact, there's not that much utility to it consider 1,2,3 are in one class and then 4 is two orders of magnitude higher, and then 7 and 8 are one more magnitude higher.
Sorry, what's the exploit here? What harm was done to the author?
> You can't solve political problems with technical solutions.

Yes, that's what I've been thinking too. Tom Quiter even mentions in the interview that there already have been companies which tried to offer cheap wheelchairs, but the quasi-monopolists had the FDA alter the regulations in a way with which the newbies couldn't comply.

However, since the MIF already attracted suppliers, I hope they can gain some leverage.
I can also have:

Just the right amount of cats
Just the right amount of internet points
Just the right amount of chutzpah
>>I think the typical Democrat-Party view that "oil bad" and "oil corrupt" lacks nuance.

Right. That is why, after 3 years of a Democratic Presidency and Senate, the US is producing more crude oil than any country, ever [0]. /s

If what you said about Democrats had even a shred of validity, that would not happen.

[0] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61545
Porting HPC Applications to AMD MI300A Using Unified Memory and OpenMP
Digital Ocean and Linode both are pretty okay, I used mostly DO
Competition exists in the phone markets. Competition exists in the open standards based web apps market.
Web apps should be able to be listed in the app stores. I understand why people want to find things in the store. Younger generations don't really use the internet the way us old farts did. Discovery is no longer something that SEO and ad driven search makes organic any more, so discovery is nearly impossible. Instead of Yahoo style search of webpages, we have the curated search of apps via stores. Not that the app search is amazing, but it's still a smaller subsection than all of the internet which makes it easier.
How are those countries' collapsing economies harming the environment?

Also why would I want to fix an economy using unwanted children?
It seems that creation of nation states was a way of scaling up tribalism.
But what do you use to actually take the notes? After trying a bunch of apps I settled on VS Code with a custom Profile that has all the settings, extensions and UI states that I need for taking markdown notes.

I realised that I already spend at minimum 8-10 hours a day in VS Code, why learn another app with all the different quirks, UI and key bindings...
Pounds sterling, Britain’s currency.